inscrutable
12
8.9
- adjective
- /ɪnˈskruːtəbl/
:
inescrutable
- Her expression remained inscrutable, giving nothing away about her true feelings.
- the inscrutable God
- remains inscrutable
- become inscrutable
Or does the law feel strange, inscrutable, absurd?
- Or does the law feel strange, inscrutable, absurd?
- And so we thought that the good is not some inscrutable, highfalutin, abstract moral ideal.
- And I don't want to have any conversations about what a mysterious, inscrutable man I am.
- Tools like this help turn a shelf full of inscrutable documents into a publicly understandable visual.
- In a classroom filled with vast theoretical distances, I can still see odd shapes drawn on the board and those inscrutable formulas.
- For instance, I think they need to stop using AIS to control cars right now because because those systems are inscrutable.
- They don't write the billions of inscrutable numbers.
Examples
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The ancient text was filled with inscrutable symbols that no one could decipher.
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His motives for leaving were inscrutable, leaving his friends confused and concerned.
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Now show me your most inscrutable face.
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Otherwise she takes three straight into her inscrutable smile.
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It's gotten to the point where some models look as inscrutable as nature itself.
Academic text (2002) -
Or does the law feel strange, inscrutable, absurd?
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Indeed, abortion might be the most inscrutable cultural issue of our time.
Academic text (2011) -
Welcome to the inscrutable Orient, Mrs. Fletcher.
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The ways of Providence are inscrutable, Dr. Rivers.
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Then she looked Alice in the eyes with an expression that was utterly inscrutable, neither kind nor malicious.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
583
7.6
Hard to understand or explain
498
5.1
Hard to understand or explain because it seems strange
52
7.0
Hard to understand or describe, like the meaning of a symbol
47
7.8
Hard to explain or understand
46
8.8
Difficult or impossible to understand
43
8.1
Hard to understand because it seems secret or mysterious
27
8.1
Hard to understand and often seems mysterious
23
8.6
Very hard to understand or measure how deep something is
19
7.0
Something people cannot understand or find a clear reason for
19
7.4
Something you cannot find out or understand
14
8.3
Very hard to understand
8
8.8
Too hard to read or understand
7
7.3
Causing someone to feel confused
4
6.9
Hard to describe or explain in words
3
6.8
Hard to describe exactly in words
1
8.6
Difficult to understand even after thinking about it
1
9.3
Hard to understand, like a puzzle
1
9.9
Too deep or mysterious to understand
1
8.2
Not possible to understand or explain
1
7.6
Hard to know what someone thinks or feels
1
9.6
Hard or impossible to understand
Hard to understand or explain
Very hard to understand
Hard to understand because it has a hidden meaning
Not possible for people to know or understand
Not possible for people to know or understand
Difficult to read from a person's face or behavior
Antonyms
How Mysterious
23
8.6
12
8.9
498
5.1
28
8.2
207
3.9
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word inscrutable comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and scrutare 'to search', and it shares the same root as scrutinize. So, something inscrutable is 'not able to be looked into' and stays mysterious and hard to understand.